Lectures on Homer at non-Catholic Universities in Central Europe as Attested in Matthaeus Collinus’s Specimen studii ac laborum (1557) and Joachim Camerarius’s Commentarius explicationis primi libri Iliados (1538)

• Main Author: Marcela Slavíková
• Format: Article
• Language: ces
• Published: Karolinum Press 2021-03-01
• Series: Acta Universitatis Carolinae: Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis
• Subjects: lectures on homer in the early sixteenth century; didactics of humanist greek; matthaeus collinus; joachim camerarius the elder; greek classes at the university of prague; specimen studii ac laborum by matthaeus collinus; commentarius explicationis primi libri iliados by joachim camerarius
• Online Access: http://www.karolinum.cz/doi/10.14712/23365730.2020.28

The purpose of this paper is to describe the structure, content, and objectives of lectures on Homer that were given by two prominent intellectuals of the early sixteenth century, namely Matthaeus Collinus (1516–1566) and Joachim Camerarius the Elder (1500–1574). The paper comprises a detailed analysis of Collinusʼs Specimen studii ac laborum (1557), whose main points are then compared with those included in Commentarius explicationis primi libri Iliados (1538) by Camerarius. Conclusions are drawn as to whether there is a direct relation between the two volumes.